About the Author

Rhoda Janzen is the author of a poetry collection, Babel’s Stair (Word Press, 2006), and has contributed poems to such journals as Poetry, The Yale Review and The Southern Review. She wrote the NY Times #1 bestseller Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (Henry Holt, 2009), which was a finalist for the 2010 James Thurber Humor Award and the 2012 finalist for the Lily Fellows Arlin G. Meyer Prize for Imaginative Writing. Janzen’s memoir Does This Church Make Me Look Fat? (Grand Central, 2012) was a finalist for the 2013 Books for a Better Life Award. Learn more at www.Rhodajanzen.com. Janzen earned a B.A. in English from Fresno Pacific University; an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Florida,Gainesville; and a PhD in English from UCLA. She teaches at Hope College.